What is the title of your latest release?
CHASE ME IF YOU CAN
What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
When photographer Sloane Michaels is invited to enter a prestigious nature magazine’s storm cover contest, she knows her favorite frenemy “Wild” Wes Talbot is the man to beat. But when an accident leaves Wes without a car, the two team up for the season…and find that the feelings between them might be more electric than the storms they’re chasing.
How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
In this case, the setting came along with the plot! While tornadoes and supercells definitely occur in other parts of the world, the highest concentration is in the American Midwest / Tornado Alley.
Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?
Absolutely! Sloane and I have a lot in common and would get along great.
What are three words that describe your hero?
Kind, competent, determined
What’s something you learned while writing this book?
I think every book an author writes teaches them something about themselves (whether they want to learn it or not!) and this book is no different. Some of those lessons were really personal, but I did spend a lot of time fine-tuning my meteorology knowledge for Chase Me If You Can!
Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
A little as I go, but mostly once it’s done. I write a very messy first draft just to get the story down, and it’s easier for me as a lifelong anti-outliner to build a skeleton first before adding all the other layers.
What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Seafood. I grew up in New England and there’s nothing better than a lobster roll on a hot summer day.
Describe your writing space/office!
My friends refer to it as “haunted castle chic” – I spent a few months redoing the space a couple of years back in dark greens with bronze accents to really make the space feel like mine. Between my day job and author life, I spend a lot of time in the space so making it feel like me was really important.
Who is an author you admire?
There are so many, but I think if I had to pick just one it would be Ali Hazelwood. Not only has she built an impressive career, with books that don’t shy away from smart FMCs, but she’s done so by being such a positive and uplifting presence in the romance community.
Is there a book that changed your life?
One book in particular, no, but some of my earliest memories are of my grandparents reading fairytales to me. I think that early foundation as a reader has a lot to do with who I am as a person, and as a writer, today.
Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published). Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
I’d had a call a week or two prior with my now-editor, Mary, one of those feel each other out before an actual offer is made conversations, and I knew my agent was going to be chatting with her that afternoon. I was full of bees, so decided to distract myself with some chores. I was walking back from taking out the trash when my phone rang. I stopped in the middle of the road and probably alarmed the neighbors with my scream when my agent explained the offer that had been made and her counter to it. The next morning – while on a day job call with my boss – there was an all caps CALL ME text that turned into the longest twenty minutes of my life before I could call her back. My agent answered with three magical words: “You got it!”
I don’t think I got much work done that day after that.
What’s your favorite genre to read?
Romance!
What’s your favorite movie?
Depending on my mood, either the 2005 Pride & Prejudice, or the Lord of the Rings (extended edition, always)
What is your favorite season?
Spring on the plains, fall in New England
How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
If I can make it work, I try to take a trip around my birthday. Last year I went to Arizona to chase monsoon storms!
What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Heated Rivalry, which maybe isn’t the most original answer, but I was just blown away by the production as a whole. The writing, the acting, the cinematography, the whole thing was done absolutely top notch by people who really cared about getting it right. We haven’t gotten many romance adaptations that GET romance beats the way that Heated Rivalry does, and on top of all of that, it’s opened up a long overdue conversation about queerness in sports. I really hope we get more adaptations like it in the future, and that books and media continue to push organizations into doing better by their queer athletes.
What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Variety. I get bored eating the same things over and over pretty quickly, so I’m always looking to try new things, especially when traveling to new places!
What do you do when you have free time?
I get out with my camera whenever I can. It’s a great creative outlet, and with my interest primarily in landscapes (and storms!) it usually takes me to interesting places. I have yet to find anything quite so peaceful as the quiet of a sunrise after a hike up the side of a mountain, or a sunset fifty miles from nowhere.
What can readers expect from you next?
I’ve recently turned in my 2027 release to my editor! We’re going storm chasing again, this time with a meteorologist and an actor who plays a meteorologist in need of a Tornado Alley crash course. I can’t say much more just yet, but it’s spicier and more likely to hurt your feelings all at once. I hope readers love Haley and Tyler as much as I do!
Two storm chasers find a love that could blow them away in this electric debut romance.
Wedding photographer Sloane Michaels spends most of her year running after brides, but she lives for the six weeks each spring she chases tornadoes instead. When the prestigious magazine Nature Shots announces a storm cover contest, Sloane knows that winning could be her best opportunity to establish herself in landscape photography.
The last thing she needs is a distraction in the form of reckless “Wild Wes” Talbot. A legend among storm chasers, he’s been Sloane’s close, personal frenemy for the last decade and is the man to beat for the cover contest.
Sloane isn’t surprised when Wes gets in an accident that jeopardizes his chances. But with an active weather pattern emerging, she doubles down on her need to beat Wes fair and square, and begrudgingly invites him to join her for the remainder of the season.
As they race through hail, high winds, and stormy skies, Sloane realizes that Wes might be more than the rich, flirty, Texas wildcard she thought she knew — and that the feelings blooming between them are more charged and dangerous than the storms they’re chasing.
Fiction Adventure [ Berkley, On Sale: June 23, 2026, Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook, ISBN: 9780593956434 / eISBN: 9780593956441 ]
Heather Frances is a writer, photographer, lifelong weather nerd and occasional storm chaser cleverly disguised as an adult with a day job in finance (though she really prefers writing kissing books). When not at home in New England drinking far too much coffee, you’ll find her somewhere with questionable cell phone service, camera in hand.
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